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Daniel Goodwin (Michigan Judge)
Daniel Goodwin (November 24, 1799 – August 25, 1887) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1843 to 1846. originally published ''Detroit Free Press'', August 26, 1887. Early life, education, and career Born in Geneva, New York, Goodwin was a descendant of Ozias Goodwin, who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, as early as 1635.Henry A. Chaney, "The Supreme Court of Michigan", '' The Green Bag'' (1890), Vol. 2, p. 381-82. His father, Dr. Daniel Goodwin, was a physician. Goodwin graduated from Union College in 1819, where his classmates included William H. Seward, and Bishops Doane and Potter. He read law with noted New York attorney John Canfield Spencer in Canandaigua, New York. In 1825 he moved from New York to Detroit, then in the Michigan Territory, where his father had just died. United States Attorney Before Michigan became a state in 1837, President Andrew Jackson offered Goodwin the district judgeship, but Goodwin thought the salary too small, and the posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvah Bradish
Alvah Bradish (1806, Sherburne, New York - April 19, 1901, Detroit) was an American portrait painter and professor. During his career, he completed over 500 portraits of notable people in New York and Michigan; as well as many people who can no longer be identified. He also painted for brief periods in Canada and Jamaica. There is no record of any formal artistic training he may have had. Biography He was one of four sons born to Samuel Morton Bradish (1777-1812), a surveyor from Worcester, Massachusetts, and his wife Mary Finch (1778-1843).Historical Collections Vol.21 @ Google Books. After his father's death, his family moved to Fredonia, where he grew up. From 1837 to 1846, he was an itin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Wilkins
Ross Wilkins (February 19, 1799 – May 17, 1872) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Michigan and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Education and career Born on February 19, 1799, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilkins graduated from Dickinson College in 1816 and read law in 1820. He was a prosecutor in Pittsburgh from 1821 to 1823. He entered private practice in Pittsburgh from 1823 to 1832. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1829 to 1830. Federal judicial service Wilkins was appointed by President Jackson as a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Michigan Territory, on April 26, 1832, serving from 1832 to 1837, and opening his first term of court on June 17, 1832. He was recorder for Detroit, Michigan, in 1837. Following the admission of the State of Michigan to the Union on January 26, 1837, Wilkins was nominated by President An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delegates To The 1850 Michigan Constitutional Convention
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1887 Deaths
Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 Births
Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * January 21 – The Parthenopean Republic is established in Naples by French General Jean Étienne Championnet; King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies flees. * February 9 – Quasi-War: In the single-ship action of USS ''Constellation'' vs ''L'Insurgente'' in the Caribbean, the American ship is the victor. * February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Sybille'' defeats the French frigate ''Forte'', off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal, but both captains are killed. * March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President pro tempore of the United States Senate. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Miles (Michigan Jurist)
George Miles (April 5, 1789 – August 25, 1850) was an American jurist and lawyer. Born in Amsterdam, New York, Miles was admitted to the New York bar in 1822. Miles served as New York District Attorney for Allegany County, New York. In 1837, Miles moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and continued to practice law. He was a Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic .... Miles served on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1846 until his death in 1850. Miles died in Ann Arbor, Michigan.'History of the University of Michigan,' Burke A, Hinsdale, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: 1906, Biographical Sketch of George Miles, pg. 170 Notes 1789 births 1850 deaths People from Amsterdam, New York People from Allegany County, New York Politicians from Ann Arbor, Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morell (Michigan Judge)
George Morell (March 22, 1786 – March 8, 1845) was an American lawyer and jurist. Born in Lenox, Massachusetts, Morell graduated from Williams College in 1807. He then studied law in Troy, New York and was admitted to the New York Bar. Morell lived in Cooperstown, New York from 1811 to 1832 where he practiced law. Morell served as a judge on the New York Court of Common Pleas and as a master in chancery in Otsego County, New York. He also served in the New York Militia. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Otsego Co.) in 1829. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson appointed Morell to the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court. Governor Stevens T. Mason appointed Morell to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1836. He served on the Michigan Supreme Court until 1843 and was the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1842 to 1843. Morell died in Detroit, Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Justices Of The Michigan Supreme Court
Following is a list of Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court. Current Justices Chief Justices Michigan Territory * Augustus B. Woodward * Solomon Sibley Statehood Former Justices References External linksList of justices of the Michigan Supreme Court 1836–2015 {{Lists of US Justices * Legal history of Michigan |
Wayne State University Press
Wayne State University Press (or WSU Press) is a university press that is part of Wayne State University. It publishes under its own name and also the imprints Painted Turtle and Great Lakes Books Series. History The Press has strong subject areas in Africana studies; fairy-tale and folklore studies; film, television, and media studies; Jewish studies; regional interest; and speech and language pathology. Wayne State University Press also publishes eleven academic journals, including ''Marvels & Tales'', and several trade publications, as well as the ''Made in Michigan Writers Series''. WSU Press is located in the Leonard N. Simons Building on Wayne State University's main campus. An editorial board approves the Wayne State University Press's titles. The board considers proposals and manuscripts presented by WSU Press's acquisitions department. WSU Press also has a Board of Visitors, dedicated to fundraising and advocacy in support of the Press. Officially, WSU Press is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stuart (explorer)
Robert Stuart (February 19, 1785 – October 28, 1848) was a Scottish-born, Canadian and American fur trader, best known as a member of the first European-American party to cross South Pass during an overland expedition from Fort Astoria to Saint Louis in 1811. He was a member of the North West Company (NWC) until recruited by John Jacob Astor to develop the new Pacific Fur Company, which was based at Fort Astoria, on the coast of present-day Oregon. Astor intended the venture to develop a continent-wide commercial empire in fur trading. Life Family history states that Robert Stuart was born in Strathyre, in the historic parish of Balquhidder, but grew up in Callander, both towns in Perthshire, about northwest of Stirling, Scotland. Around 1807, he joined an uncle, David Stuart, in Montreal to work as a clerk in the fur trade for the Canadian North West Company. In 1810, three years later, he and his uncle had been recruited into Astor's Pacific Fur Company.James P. Ronda, ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Brady (general)
Hugh Brady (July 29, 1768 – April 15, 1851) was an American general from Pennsylvania. He served in the Northwest Indian War under General Anthony Wayne, and during the War of 1812. Following the War of 1812, Brady remained in the military, eventually rising to the rank of Major General (United States), major general and taking command of the garrison at Detroit. He also marginally participated in the 1832 Black Hawk War. Hugh Brady died an accidental death in 1851 when he was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage. Early life Hugh Brady was born July 29, 1768, one of six sons and four daughters by John and Mary Brady, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Standing Stone, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.Farmer, Silas. ''History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present'',Google Books, S. Farmer & Co. for Munsell & Co.: 1890, p. 1078. Retrieved 10 October 2007.Meginness, John Franklin. ''Otzinachson: Or, a History of the West Branch V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay. The "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes, mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, contrasted with Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) to the northeast. Upper Canada was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada. Already populated by Indigenous peoples, land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
